And, their hire in a heartbeat

Ruth McCarthy, Head of Compliance at Fexco

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E178 That Great Business Show

CEO Paul Merriman, Fairstone Ireland 

A little over a year ago financial planning firm PAX was bought by UK wealth management company Fairstone, the first move for Fairstone into Ireland. And they have ambitious plans for Ireland. BTW, we believe Paul may have broken the Irish speech speed record during our chat! And if Gary Vaynerchuk is listening, Paul would like to hire you.

Gary O’Sullivan, Managing Partner at Sia Partners

The little known consultancy firms Sia Partners have 80 people working for them in Ireland, and going for growth…hoping to double again in the next two to three years. The Paris HQ’d multinational business claims specialisation including in new areas such as the metaverse and the space sectors. Doctor Drone, Bobby Healy of Manna, is Gary's 'hire in a heartbeat'.

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E177 That Great Business Show

This is simple.

You have to listen to all of the podcast to find out where to go to live, (and live well) and save tax. There are (plural!) answers from Waterford's Stephanie Wickham who knows these things. The answer may surprise you, but it's so good that Stephanie is taking her own advice!

Separately, Natalie Garland Cooke of NCCO.ie (and Waterford) has advised Stephanie about how to properly use a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system that allows her to take two MONTHS off in the sun. And the cost starts at a very affordable €40 a month.

That Great Business Show - making your life a bed of roses!

BTW, they want Aisling Bea and Mary Portas to come work with them, to make your dreams come true.

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E176 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

Luke Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Kota - aiming to be the Stripe of the insurance industry, allowing businesses from 2 to 200 to instantly set up pension, health insurance and life assurance providers globally with real-time enrolment, flexible contributions, and an employee app – all in one place. They've already raised €7.6m, and they're ready to take on the world. First Ireland, then the UK and EU...and then the mighty US. Listen to see if you're company could use his company?

And former Connecticut State senator, Brian McDermott, rounds off our BeachHeadUSA mini-series, with a request to US companies to set up in Ireland, particularly to his family’s hometown of Dundalk. Like Connecticut, situated neatly between New York and Boston, Dundalk he points out is beautifully located between Dublin and Belfast. You get the best of both worlds, all at 'the right price'.

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On E175 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

Gerard Horn is the third generation of the Horn family that has been making gloves in Dublin. Back in the 1960s they were employing more than a 100 people, making gloves fro Christian Dior, Harrods, Bloomingdales and Saks. They also had a contract to supply 10,000 First Communion gloves. The disaster struck and their factory, along with 80 machines, burnt down. They eventually bought two machines from a UK glove maker that was closing down and they’re still in business making gorgeous gloves.

And Andrew Lynch, CEO Mason Alexander, always, always wanted to be an entrepreneur…so started selling ponchos….a business that didn’t last a wet day…but he’s now running his own international business…and he's part of our #BeachHeadUSA mini-series. Essential listening if the USA is a target market for your business.

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E174 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

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Brian O’ Donoghue, Director - AML, FinCrime, Risk, Governance, Regulatory @ Grant Thornton Ireland

Brian tells us about some brilliant, but well hidden, government funded upskilling programmes particularly in his own fintech area. He found his course by chance but is now spreading the love, and knowledge about them, on That Great Business Show.

Like so many, Brian was not a university graduate and despite his experience he was turned down flat for some jobs. He explains how he navigated his way around that deficit and why employers, should or must, recognise 'on the job training, or apprenticeship training as it used to be called, if those employers want to find the best talent.

Megan Clark Torrey is CEO of The World Affairs Council of Connecticut, a non-profit, nonpartisan organisation that promotes greater awareness and dialogue on important global issues, including business. This model has not been replicated in Ireland, so it might be an opportunity for one of our loyal listeners? 

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E137 That Great Business Show

Phone maker Apple ($165 billion in cash on balance sheet) and Goldman Sachs are joining forces to take on the US savings market - it's not quite banking, yet, but it does mean savers will have high yield accounts in their pockets, ready for spending. Who gets your spending pattern knowledge? Apple, with 2 billion devices worldwide, does of course. It's the future according to Moodys and Forbes. Independent economist and former banker Alan McQuaid throws a critical eye for us on what's coming down the banking tracks.

ChatGPT can take a lot of the donkey work out of your marketing AND your day-to-day admin. Maryrose Lyons, BrightSpark Consulting, explains how to prompt (it's the word du jour) your ChatGPT account to deliver a whole slew of marketing material. Don't pretend we haven't told you, because it's not going away and the sooner you learn about it and adopt it, the sooner you'll be ahead of the posse.

You can find her AI courses for everyone from beginners to IT professionals here www.instituteofaistudies.com

With thanks to DoneDeal Motors

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Three Irish women, Jenny O'Connell, Louise O'Riordan and Aoife Matthews, based in different countries, selling their high-end women’s health supplement to the world. Developed solely with the female in mind, because women are not small men – is what they say. And, unbelievably, women were only included in clinical trials only from 1993 onward. And it wasn't until 2022 that complete female anatomy model was created (yes, we thought this was a mistake, but no, it's true.) They're raising funds with a view to expanding into the US (particularly interested in women investors), where they're also planning to manufacture their supplement.

And continuing our #BeachHeadUSA mini – series, the ultimate crib sheet for expanding into the US market, a young Cork man, Conor Lyden, an engineer based in New York, who spotted a need for his software when he was buying Liverpool football match tickets.

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E172 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

Short, simple and to the point. Tony Dunne, Country Manager USA with the Bank of Ireland shares his amazing Rolodex or contacts book with Team GBS, our loyal listeners.

He starts by saving businesses who want to set up business in the US one or two million dollars. Not bad in just 24 minutes.

He can tell you could be good for your business, but he also knows who NOT to do business with - he knows many of the 'tyre kickers'.

And, a banker explains how difficult it is to open a bank account in the US. And it's a problem that not's going to go away soon.

Another great insight is that if your business 'doesn't succeed in New York, it could succeed in the US' (so many diverse markets across the fifty States).

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - Michael O'Leary. Yes, think about it...Michael O'Leary running a bank??? Great.

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E171 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

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This is something very special.

It'll take you a while to find out what guest Ruairi Curtin, New York out of Cork, does. We don't want to spoil the surprise.

He used to work with Enterprise Ireland and maybe, just maybe, he may have done a little bit of double-jobbing there. But, that was a while ago.

Now he, and his fellow Irish co-founders, have built one hell of a NY-based business. That's all we're saying. It's one of the best (and possibly least well-known) Irish success stories we've come across for a long, long time.

And a very special thanks to Tony Dunne of Bank of Ireland in New York who made the introduction.

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